{"id":12283,"date":"2017-11-07T07:04:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T15:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=12283"},"modified":"2024-05-29T17:03:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:03:24","slug":"irelands-broadsheet-who-is-protecting-george-gibney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=12283","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s Broadsheet: \u2018Who Is Protecting George Gibney?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<html><body><b>PREVIOUSLY:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;George Gibney&#8217;s 2010 Application For American Citizenship Was Rejected, With No Other Consequences, Federal Judge Said,&#8221; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=12269\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=12269<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Reprint of Sunday Times of London Article: &#8216;Abuser coach Gibney denied U.S. citizenship,'&#8221; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=12277\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=12277<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;How George Gibney Lied on His 2010 Application For American Citizenship,&#8221; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=12279\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=12279<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;George Gibney was charged with 27 counts of indecency against young swimmers and of carnal knowledge of girls under the age of 15 in April, 1993 but the charges were dropped because of the length of time which had passed since the abuse took place.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The former Irish swimming coach was granted a visa during a visit to the United States in 1992 &#8211; seemingly aided by a Garda character reference &#8211; a year after people who had been abused by him started to speak up and organise themselves.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>In addition, a 2010 application by Gibney to obtain US citizenship &#8211; some months after Evin Daly, of the Florida-based advocacy group One Child International alerted the US government of Gibney&#8217;s past in Ireland &#8211; was rejected.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>It&#8217;s also understood Gibney may have lied in this application.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>And yet.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Gibney remains in the United States.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The revelations about his 1992 visa and 2010 citizenship bid have been revealed by US journalist <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/irvmuch?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><b>Irvin Muchnick<\/b><\/a><b> who has been trying to get Gibney&#8217;s immigration file from the Department of Homeland Security, under the Freedom of Information Act.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read on: <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadsheet.ie\/2017\/11\/07\/who-is-protecting-george-gibney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.broadsheet.ie\/2017\/11\/07\/who-is-protecting-george-gibney\/<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chronological links to our series, which began January 27, 2015, under the headline &#8220;Why Is George Gibney &#8211; No. 1 At-Large Pedophile in Global Sports &#8211; Living in Florida? 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